Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Greenpoint

NYPD Denies High-Speed Chase in Death of Greenpoint Mom

By Graham T. Beck | May 21, 2009 | 6 Comments

Deputy Inspector Dennis Fulton at last Monday’s 94th Precinct Community Council meeting. The New York City Police Department denies that it was involved in a high-speed police chase preceding the vehicle-on-pedestrian collision that took the life of Violetta Kryzak, a 38-year-old Polish-American mother and Greenpoint resident, despite eyewitness accounts to the contrary first published by […]

Car Chases: Not Like What You See in the Movies

By Graham T. Beck | Apr 28, 2009 | 25 Comments

The aftermath of yesterday’s deadly car chase on Manhattan Avenue. Photo: Graham T. Beck Manhattan Avenue, the bustling main street in my usually quiet Brooklyn neighborhood, became a multi-block crime scene yesterday afternoon when a mini-van driver, reportedly fleeing police at high speed, struck and killed a woman near India Street before crashing into a […]

Teresa Toro is Back in the Saddle at Community Board 1

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 11, 2009 | 4 Comments

Here’s some good news: The Brooklyn Paper reports that livable streets advocate Teresa Toro has been reinstated as chair of the transportation committee at Brooklyn Community Board 1.

The Livable Streets Backlash Claims a Victim at Brooklyn’s CB1

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 24, 2008 | 25 Comments

Teresa Toro, one of New York City’s most productive livable streets activists in recent years, has been deposed as chair of Brooklyn Community Board 1’s Transportation Committee. CB1 covers the Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods of Brooklyn and has recently been embroiled in bitter fighting over the new bike lanes on Kent Avenue. CB1’s executive committee […]

Kent Ave Bike Lane Stirs Passions in Williamsburg

By Ben Fried | Nov 26, 2008 | 4 Comments

The Kent Avenue lane at work, with squad car. Photo: i’m not sayin, i’m just sayin. New York’s latest bike lane skirmish flared up Monday night at a "transportation town hall" in Williamsburg. About 150 people turned out, and DOT bike program coordinator Josh Benson caught an earful from bike lane opponents upset over new […]

Brooklyn CB1 Hears Two Proposals for Safer Streets Tonight

By Ben Fried | Sep 8, 2008 | 1 Comment

We’ve got some more community board action for you today. Brooklyn Community Board 1, which represents Williamsburg and Greenpoint, is set to hear proposals for new buffered bike lanes on Kent Avenue and for improving pedestrian safety at dangerous intersections in North Brooklyn. The bike lanes are an interim step on the way to completing […]

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